Innsbruck Hötting railway station

Innsbruck Hötting railway station (German: Innsbruck Hötting Bahnhof) is a railway station in the borough of Hötting in Innsbruck, the capital city of the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the first station on the Mittenwald Railway (Karwendelbahn) north of Innsbruck West station (de), where the line branches off the Arlberg railway. The station was opened in 1912 and is served by trains operated by both Deutsche Bahn and Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).

Innsbruck Hötting
The island platform with a DB train from Munich to Innsbruck on the left and an ÖBB train from Innsbruck to Seefeld on the right
Location6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Tirol
Austria
Coordinates47°15′42″N 11°22′26″E
Owned byÖBB
Operated byÖBB Infra
Line(s)Mittenwald Railway
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Train operatorsÖBB, DB Regio Bayern
Other information
Fare zoneVVT
History
Opened1 July 1912 (1912-07-01)
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio Bayern   Following station
Allerheiligenhöfe
toward Munich Hbf
RB
Werdenfelsbahn
Innsbruck Westbahnhof
Allerheiligenhöfe  
Regional
Mittenwald Railway
  Innsbruck Westbahnhof
Location
Innsbruck Hötting
Location in Austria
Innsbruck Hötting
Location in Europe

The station is 1.8 kilometres from Innsbruck West station. The travel time to Innsbruck Main station is 7 minutes, the travel time to Seefeld is 30 minutes.

Description

The station lies in Hötting, to the west of the town centre, between Fürstenweg, to which it is connected by a pedestrian path, and Ampfererstraße from which there is car access. Is it geographically the closest rail station to the Innsbruck Airport, from where local bus F travels along Fürstenweg near the station.

The station has two tracks on the both sides of an island passenger platform.

There are plans to move the station to the north, closer to Höttinger Au, where a transfer to the tram network will be possible.[1]

Rail services

As of January 2019, the typical off-peak services from the station are:

  • 2 tph (trains per hour) to Innsbruck Main station via Innsbruck West station. This includes Tyrol S-Bahn trains from Seefeld as well as REX trains from Munich or Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • 2 tph to Seefeld, half of which continue to Garmisch-Partenkirchen or further to Munich.

References

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